SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Postmodern Architecture, Centrism, Cultural Relativism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Sandra Colevecchia

Document Summary

Brim has formulated the de nition, culture is how people deal with real life problems. Their superstitions are how some people deal with society. Adults bringing their children out late at night in italy. Norms are not xed, they evolve with society. Thinking this country is backwards because you don"t agree with a country"s norms is not cultural relativism; it is ethic centrism. Ethic centrism is thinking your way/ your own culture"s way of doing things is better than the ways other culture"s standards. Cultural relativism is when all cultures are of equal value. Economic interconnectedness - european union and free trade. Ritzer: the mcdonald-ization of society - easily came up with this theory because he remembered the. Inspired by max weber"s idea of rationalization. Modern bureaucracies: uniform, standardized, no discretion or latitude permitted for clients or time before mcdonald"s and stepped into mcdonald"s when it just opened. workers.